CNG 91, Lot: 740. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33mm, 25.03 g, 12h). Dated RY 18 (AD 133/4). Laureate and draped bust right / Agathodaemon serpent and Uraeus serpent erect vis-à-vis, each wearing skhent, one holding a caduceus in tail, the other a sistrum; L I H (date) across field. Köln 1097 var. (date placement); Dattari (Savio) 7902; K&G 32.574. VF, brown and red patina, some green and small areas of roughness. Rare.

From the Greenpoint Collection.